Our Story (1984) (original) (raw)
Synopsis
Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her...
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Lmao what the fuck? Drunk 50-year-old Alain Delon does more fight sequences and stunts in this movie than he did in all of his films when he was younger. A baffling work of absurdism.
Here we are dealing with two dimensions of the man's mind:
1. The disturb mind, chaos, crowding, collective spaces full of men and a woman as a subject. Delivering the comic side of the story, the absurdity of the mind, and the physicality of mise-en scene and cross-over narrative. In addition to "the other" (woman), we have a male community. Action sequences, slapstick and sex-comedy.
2. The personal, lonely and isolated parts, which are some direct confrontation with "the other" (women), and the melancholic and lonely side of men's essence and being that is represented in these overwhelming gestures.
Ален Делон попадает в топ самых красивых старых мужиков, после Аль Пачино и Де Ниро
delon fits this absurd universe so well. great performance to say the least
I was like Whaaaaat? during the whole movie.
Quartos separados estreava há 40 anos no Festival de Toronto.
Breve jornada de sonho indeed. Se o Hawks e o Buñuel tivessem um filho seria exatamente esse filme. Brilhante.
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It’s the story of a girl who watched 38 Alain Delon movies in four months and can’t believe it took this long to get to the Charlie Kaufman one. At no point while watching this did she have any idea what the next word out of anyone’s mouth would be and she sat in side-eyed fascination and hesitation as the images on her screen betrayed any semblance of logic. She wrote drafts of this Letterboxd review in her mind and tossed out one after another as there isn’t really a way to describe this movie but she did like it. She can’t believe Alain Delon starred in I’m Thinking of Ending Things in 1984 - 36 years before the movie even came out. She can’t believe that his career keeps surprising her.
i‘ve never seen these many men in robes in my entire life
Halfway between absurd, surreal and existentialist, Notre Histoire is the story of a lost and desperate man in search of something missing in his life. It's a difficult film to classify, in which several genres converge and that seems to talk about the apathy and disillusionment of the bourgeoisie at the end of the 20th century. I found it soporific, unengaging, erratic, and I wasn't convinced by the tonal shifts; worse still, in my opinion, it's one of those films that feels incredibly dated.
Whatever Charlie Kaufman ass genre this is is my favorite genre.
If I had to describe it it would be, the “the thing you think is happening in the plot isn’t actually happening” genre. But there’s got to be a catchier name (and I don’t think it’s just plain surrealism).
Also while I was watching this I was drinking a milkshake that I made myself and one of my cats was nestled against my feet so it was kind of a perfect viewing experience.
Related lists:
Alain Delon Completist - 16/52
Alain Delon in order of hotness - 46/52
Let’s play: take a shot every time a character says histoire. Cheers!
I will mostly remember “Notre Histoire” as the film that won Alain Delon the César Award for Best Actor (also how to pronounce croissant in French haha). He has been nominated twice before for his roles in “Mr. Klein” (1976) and “Mort d’un Pourri” (1977). If you’re wondering why he hasn’t been nominated during the 1960s, it’s because the César Awards wasn’t even established at that period. For the film itself, SPOILERS below:
If we make “Mulholland Drive” depressive and comical instead of nightmarish and “Naked Lunch” from the unreliable perspective of a drunk instead of a drug addict, we’ll have “Notre Histoire”. We follow the story of…